Hi, I had some ginger from a supermarket and a really nice green sprout started, I trimmed it off and put in into a saucer of water for a few weeks and have now potted it up so that the shoot is just above the surface. Is this the right way? As it has now stopped growing, Sorry I did try the search button but unavailable due to high volume :o At this time of the morning :)
we cut the piece of the ginger off that had the shoot growing, kimbo, like a large chunk, ours is still going so I'm not sure about yours, one I did has died, I overwatered it :(
Hi Kimbobill
I grew some about 10 years ago and it ended up looking like a clump of grass!
Unfortunately I had to give it away as I had to move house - so lost track of it!
Not impressive in the looks department!
Old Bird
;D
Thanks for the replies Manicscousers and Old Bird. should I keep it in a greenhouse in a pot? "clump of grass" sounds interesting! I take it a root develops hopefully and cut a piece off or dig it all up? I think I might be jumping the gun here :) Just fascinated to see it sprout.
Bill the OH of kimbo
Article here -
http://www.plantcultures.org/plants/ginger_grow_it.html (http://www.plantcultures.org/plants/ginger_grow_it.html)
I put mine outside during the summer in a large pot on a southish facing patio, then brought it back in in the late autumn. It didn't flower but I probably should have started it earlier. I haven't yet emptied the pot out and am not sure whether it's dead or alive but all the greenery has died back so I'm not very hopeful.
Must have another go at this, have tried and failed - and I spend a fortune on ginger so it'd be really cost effective to grow my own ;D
Ours is outgrowing the front room window sill,have not thought of putting it outside,
thought it was too tender for that.
The link shown says it needs really hot conditions - minimum 28 degrees C - and that IS a bit hot to be a guaranteed outdoor temperature in the UK, so it's going to be a challenge!
I plant a supermarket tuber, it always grows, I use the green shoots as flavouring. It kives in the greenhouse in a tub but goes out when the weather is good. They are deciduous perennials,they rot in cold and wet,you can harvest tubers after about 9 months so start indoors early. You can also eat the shoots.
It is iffy, but I have grown it in good summers if started early and kept warm.
XX Jeannine
Oh , there are true types, Chinese which is the one you will see in Tescos and there is a Japanes one called Mioga which I have been unabke to find in the UK
But a MINIMUM temp of 28 degrees C- how do you accomplish that?
I have done it without that high a temp but as I said it is iffy.It will grow as a houseplant ,best in a conservatory, but it will grow 4 feet tall.
I start it in the house very early, only put it out if it is very hot and sunny, otherwise it lives in the greenhouse.
Speaking purely for me it is rather an interesting experiment rather than a crop, and I have done it, but is it worth it... no I don't really think so, but then I don't eat tons of ginger.
XX Jeannine
Crystalized ginger. Yum!
Recently I saw a recipe for crystalized ginger chocolates. Very tempting.
It makes me think it might be worth trying to grow it just for that.
I've been growing an ornamental ginger outdoors in a pot. It's been ther for three or four years now and has survived frost, snow, gales and of course, rain. It had it's best flower display last summer (or as I call it: what summer?). I recently bought a piece of edible ginger from the supermarket and it has a couple of shoots so I've planted it up in the same way as the ornamental one and I have high hopes - I think they're tougher than they seem.
Hi Amazin - what size pot? Wondering whether to pot mine on this year....
Bob Flowerdew recons you should plant the rooty bit too...
he says:
"any bit of fresh root with a healthy bud can be grown up into a whole new'hand'. Cut off a piece about the size of your thumb with a fat bud on it. Let the cut surface dry for a couple of days. Then pot it just under the surface of a gritty open compost. Stand the pot on bottom heat in a propagator from late winter. Once it is growing away keep really warm and be careful never to over water - though spray with seaweed solution weekly. Ginger does best on raised beds and - oddly - growing among other plants rather than on its own... while the stems are green the bulbous bit is tender and can be candied; once the stem-leaves wither and fall, the root has become ready for lifting and drying..."
Lemongrass sounds a bit easier....
Just emptied out my ginger pot and found this scary looking object....
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Decided not to harvest, just replant it because I want the flowers. Would I be better off dividing it up?
I have tried growing ginger these past couple of years. It gets to the stage of throwing up leaves but there is never any new root to harvest. Having read what is on this thread I am wondering if I have over watered it. :-\
I hardly watered at all.....
I don't plant a small piece, I always plant a decent size chunk with several points on it. XX Jeannine